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After a few months of waiting and about 28 hours of traveling I finally reached Jaipur in India. Traveling internationally definitely shows the concerns about the swine flu. Before every stop with the flight I had to fill in health declarations and where I have been and where I will go. The tracking of the disease seems to be taken very seriously.
On the bus ride from New Delhi to Jaipur I managed to see a monkey sliding down a drainpipe, a lot of dromedaries (or was it starved camels?), an elephant and dozens of cows walking down the roads. Apparently I took the wrong bus and ended up on a cheap low class bus where no one spoke english, instead of the Volvo bus with air conditioning and half the travel time. It was a bit complicated since it did not state the name of the stations and no one spoke English, but I don't regret it for one second! I probably managed to see more of "real" India than taking the tourist crowded buses.
I am staying in a house with I don't know how many people, but so far I have met two interns from Japan, three interns from Turkey, and one old AIESECer from India, but there are plenty of more rooms from which I have not met the people yet. The place is quite far from where I work (20 minutes with Indian three wheel motorcycle taxi non-peak-hour), so I might get relocated to another place soon.
First day at work was great. I was introduced in more details to some of the products, and then had the chance to follow to three different sales meetings in the field. I was going around the city on the back of the motorcycle of Amit, one of my co-workers, and have to admit that Indian traffic is crazy! There are probably 70% motorcycles, 10% bikes and 20% cars, and everyone is trying to win the competition of honking the horn as many times as possible. (About 60 times per minute!)
Unfortunately I have had my camera packed down in a bag, but I will try to share more pictures in the future.
I will try to not get so long winded in the blog, so stay in tune for next post!
In this blog I will share my experiences of my AIESEC internship experience in a company called "Illusions4real" in Jaipur, India. I will be staying for at least eight months, and I will be working with sales and marketing of energy efficiency solutions. For a start I will be working with solar lanterns for rural India and LED lights.
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- Leo
- Umeå, Sweden
- 27 years old Swedish guy on a life long journey to drive positive change in our society.
First! Hi Leo, its great to see that you've taken the ultimate AIESEC challenge. I saw link here in facebook, and will follow along. We are together with Pauliina in Grenoble, France, for a student exchange this academic year. Take care!
ReplyDeleteRasmus (in Stockholm summer 2007)
Cool Leo! Looking forward to follow your adventure, keep us updated, business and pleasure:)
ReplyDeleteHumble,
Andi
It will be difficult for you to adjust to Indian roads. Hope you will get used to it soon.
ReplyDeleteSanthakumar.
Hej Leo lycka till I Indien. Kommer att kolla vad du sysslar med .Ps satte in lite pengar på ditt konto för några dagar sedan.
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ReplyDeleteMy thanks to you for a refreshing dose of India this fine autumn afternoon. Looking forward to the next update.
Good to hear that your first day at work was successful and that your accomodation is cozy. :)
Take care good friend!
/Jonas
Is that Jonas from Umea!
ReplyDeleteI am not sure if you would revist this comments section. But if you do....hi from moi. If u remember, I had spent 2-3 weeks in Umea is the autumn of 2005!!! Dinner at Gandhi restaurant rings any bell?
Gauri Poswal